Solar eclipse of October 3, 1986
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A hybrid solar eclipse occurred on October 3, 1986. A hybrid eclipse starts and ends as an annular, but is total in the middle around the point of greatest eclipse. Totality occurred for a very short time (calculated at 0.08 seconds) in an area in the Atlantic Ocean, just east of the southern tip of Greenland. The path, on the surface of the Earth, was a narrow, tapered, horse-shoe, and visible only from a thin strip between Iceland and Greenland. At maximum eclipse the solar elevation was about 6°. The path width was just about 800 meters wide.
Solar eclipse of October 3, 1986 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Hybrid |
Gamma | 0.9931 |
Magnitude | 1 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 0 s (0 min 0 s) |
Coordinates | 59.9°N 37.1°W / 59.9; -37.1 |
Max. width of band | 1 km (0.62 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 19:06:15 |
References | |
Saros | 124 (53 of 73) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9479 |
This eclipse was the last central eclipse of saros 124 and the only hybrid eclipse of that saros.